Really, really bad idea: REAL ID Picture credit: EU Politix T he invaluable Bruce Schneier led his most recent Cryptogram newsletter with a ...

Jihad Jane Picture credit: Jane T. Christensen F rontpage Magazine's Mike Adams points us to an especially egregious case of moonbatitis...

Detecting and Fighting Phishers Picture credit: Stern H ere's another wonderful phishing email I just received. Not familiar with the t...

Exceptions vs. Return Codes, part 912 Picture credit: Congreve H ee hee. Joel's at it again, raising cain in the age-old return-codes ...

Google, DNS Cache Poisoning, and Phishers (Picture credit Quantrimang ) I nformationWeek reports that Google was knocked offline on Saturda...

Could the Saudis Blow Up Their Own Oil Infrastructure? (Picture credit BBC News ) F rontpage Magazine features a fascinating article by Dani...

The Five Most Shocking Things About the ChoicePoint Debacle A senior editor at CSO Online, Sarah Scalet, shreds ChoicePoint in impressive f...

The Political Influence of the Blogosphere I f you've wondered what impact the blogosphere made on presidential politics in 2004, wonder...

Fending off a DDOS Attack (Picture credit SIGgraph ) I usually don't link to Slashdot articles simply because they're so widely rea...

Eight Gigs (Picture credit IBsys and AP ) H itachi recently introduced its 8 gigabyte "Mikey" hard-drive. Shown here -- with domi...

Book Review: Frederick Forsyth's Icon T hough it was published in 1996, Icon is especially relevant today, given Russia's wavering s...

Judicial Filibusters: a Brief History (Picture credit US Senate Committee on the Judiciary ) I 'd heard rumblings from the MSM/DNC that...

Sharkfish's experiences interviewing techies Picture credit: Boston College T hrough a link on the JOS discussion board, Sharkfish discu...

Meet the Fockers Picture credit: RH Sager T he endlessly disappointing Bob Herbert reprised the Iraq war in a Times' Op-Ed piece this m...

Zarqawi's Morale Problem - Exclusive Memo I raqi and US counter-terror operators recently captured a computer owned by insurgent COO Mus...

Can Bill Gates Slow Google Down? Picture credit: ZDnet Korea F ortune Magazine features a great article on the challenges Microsoft faces f...

Baseball Trivia Picture credit: Boston Red Sox H ere's a bit of baseball trivia: eight managers in the history of the game have won thr...

CBS' Bob Schieffer: Unfair and unbalanced (Picture credit Tcho.ch - results of an image search for 'Schieffer'!) I f you though...

Despair Picture credit: Despair.com T he inimitable Despair.com is back in the news again, albeit through a mention on CNet's blog . I ...

Oh, Those   Dangers of Outsourcing, Part III I n April, insurance firm Northwestern Mutual proudly announced to the world that it routinely ...